• Question: How long does it take to digest food? Does it depend on the type of food?

    Asked by dom1234 to Duncan, Grant, Julie, Nik, Rachel on 20 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Nik Watson

      Nik Watson answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      I think typical time is around 12 hours, i imagine it is very dependent on the type of food as you stomach will need to break it down into components it can progress.

    • Photo: Duncan Gaskin

      Duncan Gaskin answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      It depends on lots of different factors, the type of food, how much, your age, your health, how active you are, how fat/thin you are and so on.

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